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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Barbara Walters

When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
BARBARA WALTERS

Blame Children Trouble Yourself
I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.
BARBARA WALTERS

Depend Myself People Rumor Taste
Don’t worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.
BARBARA WALTERS

Heart President Worry
I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews ‘fiery debates.’ During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.
BARBARA WALTERS

Democracy Together Years
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
BARBARA WALTERS

Feeling Job Value Yourself
When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
BARBARA WALTERS

Interviewing Someone Thinking
And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
BARBARA WALTERS

Believe Comfort Enormously Life Live Thinking
Because there are so many shows on and because I’ve been so hands-on – I’ve had a piece on almost every single week – I don’t know how to cut back on that. You really can’t.
BARBARA WALTERS

Hands Pieces Show Yourself
The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
BARBARA WALTERS

Condition General Human Liberal Media Misery Poverty Report
New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
BARBARA WALTERS

Adventure Children Energy Fast Galaxy Stand
Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
BARBARA WALTERS

Party People Technique
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
BARBARA WALTERS

Humor Laughing Laughter
The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
BARBARA WALTERS

Feeling Perspective Way Yourself
Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
BARBARA WALTERS

Gossip Interest Myself People
If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
BARBARA WALTERS

Aggression Authority Best Man Woman Word
politics … is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It’s not only a conversation-wrecker, it’s a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
BARBARA WALTERS

Conversation Jobs Land

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

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